The US Geological Survey (USGS) Alaska Science Center is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research that uses existing field data to identify the influence of climatic variation on the summer forage and insect conditions for barren-ground caribou, determine how these conditions influence caribou behavior and distributions, and project future shifts in caribou distributions given changing habitat conditions.

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

FAITH GRAVES fgraves@usgs.gov